In agreement with Colin's point here. If they all log in with the same login form, I'd store them in a single "users" table and have a "roles" field that would help authorize requests using something like "CanCan" .
On 25 May 2013 12:10, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 25 May 2013 03:55, Peter <pe...@poproj.com> wrote: > > Can I please get everyone's opinion? Should customers and admins be on > > separate tables? I'm developing an application that has two kinds of > users, > > a customer and an administrator. > > You have given the game away here by describing them as 'kinds of > users'. Have one table and distinguish the users types with a > boolean, for example. I guess they will both have to login for > example, and that is much easier with one table. You could look at > the cancan gem to handle the roles but it may be simpler just to use > before_filters to control the access. > > > > > The application basically is a shopping cart. Customers from the internet > > create their accounts so they are able to buy my products. But there are > > also administrators (admins). Admins are my employees. They maybe call > new > > customers and try to sell them my products. They have the ability to > create, > > update and manage customers' accounts. Admins are able to buy products > for > > customers upon their request. I hope that makes sense. > > > > Given that admins and customers have different roles but are the same > > objects, users, should they be in separate tables? Thank you. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/5f95a7f7-1368-43f3-ac54-18b0dfa64dfb%40googlegroups.com?hl=en-US > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLvJgAt_G5oc3zvB9gVVZ3KcvhH_tCAAK89gBWi9iaeztg%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAJ%3Dox-C2OzpRqXH-nQJRZTkG79wakYmAnaJspp%2BJKenK2sDGYw%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
